what we do -

 

 

virtual services - more interactive, use "go to assist"  

 

liaison programs, expand - departments (subject) branch out physically

 

instruction

 

out of the library out into field with users - instruction in class, searching strategies

 

embeded into a class - into the class in a whole quarter (online)

 

attend rounds in a medical school, on site reference

 

instruction - maintain a webpage for ongoing reference, service points on campuses (off site, out of the building)

 

embedding in a club - literacy project, librarians into rotary clubs and offer a program into libraries

 

annual survey of branches - send out staff, tell us about work in teh community - team of reference librarians to support those groups (librarians itentify leaders, initiate projects with groups) status of the librarian -

 

entire class - first year experience class - expand a history class to involve a librarian every day (humanities, special collections, &c) with a print shop, hand setting movable type.  Enables students to see what librarians do.  

(what are you really doing in the class?  how to you integrate?)

 

passive embeddedness -

 

be more active - project in the community - send librarians into classroom

 

 

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What can we do to enable ourselves?

 

 

out of the building - make list of needs, the crucial things you will need in order to embed yourself in to your community

 

is ferpa a fear of faculty? what is ferpa?  federal education rights and privacy act - perhaps libarians need to emphasize our connection to this?

 

create a toolset for community - wiki, drupal,

 

online language services, small business tools, directory,

 

pay attention to your community -

 

dont contstrain to the four walls - what can we do for you - what can we bring to you

 

establishing networks is really important

 

hire people that are involved in the community -they already have ties.

 

 

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Challenges as we see them

 

 

fight status quo - people dont want to change their current path - "one more thing to do"  faculty and staff

busy - dont have time for us -

*solution save time, create relationshiops

 

visibility - be where they are - be where they are, makes them pay attention

 

staff turnover - relationships  -how do you keep the relationships?  must invest time and obligation to the relationship

 

Staff obligation, how do you budget time for this? - choose how to you integrate

 

spending an entire class - learn what things are like for them, for the students - to learn about how their life is.  

 

Relationships are viral - spreads.  

 

partner with programs - writing centers, subsitute for teachers/professors, departments as liaisons, offer to teach.  Problem - intimidating, work overload, share and distribute the workload

 

administrative support - time and money - need to free up time for this

 

change paradigm of expectations - identify a specifci problem, offer a solution to a problem, track progress

 

 

 

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ideas to encourage buy in

 

 

group meeting - be on the agenda, have something to contribute

 

carrot and stick - pay close attention to administration actions, and then speak the same language, and this is what we can do to further that -

 

identify leverage

 

success stories - webpage refreshes with a success story - plasma tvs, on a bulletin board,

 

faculty status helps -

 

track "really good jobs"  assessment, assess success stories

 

library is convener of annual conference "what is our annual community needs?"  and identify task members -

dont fight for status with each other, but fight for who can contribute the most to the community activities

 

shared resources - co op with local school districts, time, money, recruit people to your cause, establish relationships with information

 

*online/offline class

 

Graduate level class

lurk on the class, students would post questions, identify opportunities for identifying reference

 

find a good supportive faculty member to cooperate with

 

* ideas

 

identify the teeny things that go a long way - be useful, be friendly

 

just being there....

 

student advisors -

 

free up staff time by identifying those who do best or enjoy most.  

 

face to name, face to relationships

 

different way to look at what the library does

 

identify our relationships better - cannot be passive anymore

 

pay attention to how the library is used, so you can take clues on how to be more useful

 

not talking about our relevance, but proving our relevance

 

waiting groups of people

 

gather more metadata about our community*  need to do more of that.  community score card, community measure

 

dont report as much, how report more

 

library success wiki - or LSW wiki -

 

reassess what could be done differently

 

physical outreach leads to virtual outreach

 

card signups at local hang outs